Abrasion wear resistant coated substrate product
The coated substrate product finds particular application in eyeglass and sunglass lenses, architectural glass, analytical instrument windows, automotive windshields and laser bar code scanners for use in retail stores and supermarkets. The product has greatly improved wear resistance for severe abrasive environments and comprises a substantially optically transparent substrate, one or more chemically vapor deposited interlayers bonded to the substrate and a chemically vapor deposited outer layer of optically transparent or substantially optically transparent hard and low friction material bonded to the interlayer and away from the substrate.
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Claims
1. A coated substrate product comprised of a substantially optically transparent glass substrate which is transparent to light in the visible region of 350 to approximately 750 nanometers;
- a composite layer comprising at least one chemically vapor deposited interlayer of silicon oxy-nitride having a thickness in the range of about 1.mu.m to about 20.mu.m and substantially optically transparent to light in the visible region of 350 to approximately 750 nanometers;
- an outer layer of substantially optically transparent, hard and low friction material selected from the group consisting of tin oxide, indium oxide, aluminum oxide, zirconium oxide, boron nitride, boron carbide, molybdenum disulfide, carbon nitride, mixtures thereof and chemically bonded combinations thereof, which is transparent to light in the visible region of 350 to approximately 750 nanometers and is bonded to said composite layer and away from said substrate;
- said composite layer is capable of forming a strong chemical bond to said substrate and a strong chemical bond to said outer layer;
- whereby said product has greatly improved wear resistance to severe abrasive environments for a bar code scanner window.
2. The product of claim 1 wherein said hard and low friction material is tin oxide.
3. The product of claim 1 wherein said hard and low friction material is zirconium oxide.
4. The product of claim 1 wherein said hard and low friction material is boron nitride.
5. The product of claim 1 wherein said hard and low friction material is boron carbide.
6. The product of claim 1 wherein said hard and low friction material is carbon nitride.
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Type: Grant
Filed: Mar 6, 1997
Date of Patent: Dec 1, 1998
Assignee: Monsanto Company (St. Louis, MO)
Inventors: Fred M. Kimock (Macungie, PA), Bradley J. Knapp (Allentown, PA), Steven James Finke (Kutztown, PA), John V. Galdieri (New Tripoli, PA)
Primary Examiner: A. A. Turner
Law Firm: Coudert Brothers
Application Number: 8/812,478
International Classification: G06K 710;